John 5:21

Now just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, just so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes.

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In The King James Version

For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.

In Context

20For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything that He Himself is doing; and He will show Him greater works than these, so that you may marvel.

22In fact the Father does not judge anyone but has committed all the judging to the Son,

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Cross References

Luke 7:14And advancing He took hold of the bier and the bearers stood still. Then He said, “Young man, to you I say, get up!”

John 11:25Jesus said to her: “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes into me, though he may die, will live;

John 17:2just as You gave Him authority over all humanity, so that He will give eternal life to all those whom You have given Him.

Romans 4:17just as it is written: “I have made you a father of many ethnic nations” —in the presence of Him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead and calls the nonexistent things as though they did exist.

Matthew Henry on John 5:18-31

Christ's Discourse with the Jews; All Judgment Committed to Christ; The Christian Charter. 17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. 18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. 19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth… Read the whole commentary →

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